Bankruptcy. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick ? We'll see. The story behind how I got here and what happens next, and more. This is a continuing story and not just random, individual blogs – why not start at the beginning with me… D Day.

If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ll know that my bankruptcy wasn’t caused by my own financial mismanagement. I had an issue at work in which my employer thought (and was proved incorrectly) that I had broken some rules and they reported me to the Police and also my licensing authority. I’m a professional who […]

Sat in a cafe in North London yesterday, I re-read a text message I was sent the previous night from someone I love and respect dearly. The reason I had to re-read it was simply that when it came through and my eyes darted left and right over the black letters on a grey background, […]

My first month of my bankruptcy has flown by. 11 to go. I have had a lot going on in my personal life to attend to, but not withstanding that, I thought I would write down a summary of what has happened purely on the financial affairs front for anyone in the future who searches […]

Spending a few days away this weekend working in my friends pub did me both the world of good and also dragged me back a little. It did a lot more too, it let me see (and hear from) people that I love and that love me back, and that is a great healer in […]

My eyes are bloodshot and full of psychic tears, I cannot see the words clearly that I am typing as it is like opening your eyes underwater in a swimming pool. Everything is blurry through a thin mixture of water, salts, antibodies and Iysozymes. My heart is racing and I feel physically sick and my […]

I have just been given £100 cash for helping a friend with a driving job. That’s two weeks living money right there. Thank you Gav ! As I now have no outgoings, money should last a little longer. I’m sat in a hotel lobby in the British horse racing town of Newmarket. I have free […]

It took ‘Deep thought’ the supercomputer in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 7.5 million years to work out and check that the answer to literally everything is 42. It took Experian about 3 of your Earth minutes last night to get within 1 point of that particular calculation. I’m actually quite gutted that I […]